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    Odd smell coming from fresh eggs

    Does anyone else get an odd funky smell coming from their fresh eggs as they are stored for hatching? I keep any eggs i am keeping for hatching in the basement in a tray and tilt them each day. I also have my incubator in the same area. A lot of the summer when i was constantly...
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    how many eggs should i get from 13 females daily?

    We have 11 females and we get 10 eggs a day most days, with some 9 or 11 egg days not being rare either. Our flock is a mix of year old birds and 8ish month old birds. I haven't tracked it too closely, but i would guess at: 9 eggs 25% 10 eggs 55% 11 eggs 20%
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    Hatch rate caulculations, include dead chicks?

    I'm with you on only counting fertile eggs, to me that's a separate measure than hatch rate, just wasn't sure about the normal accepted method of hatch rates
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    Hatch rate caulculations, include dead chicks?

    Hi Guys, this time around when our quail chicks hatched we had 2 that hatched out, but then died in the incubator before we moved them to the brooder. When you're looking at your hatch rates, do you include them in your hatched numbers since they did successfully get out of the shell, or would...
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    Turning vs not turning, an unintended experiment

    A little late updating, but of the 11 non turners we had 5 hatch and of those 5 2 didn't make it longer than a day. They were much later than the rest in the turners though. The bulk of the eggs hatched day 18-19 and these last 5 were day 21/22. I assume that where they were a bit lower down in...
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    How long until scalped quail can be reintroduced?

    I can't say with any certainty yet, they're only 6 weeks, so there's been a few obvious males, but i have a hard time telling the difference if there's not bulge/foam yet or they're not laying eggs.
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    How long until scalped quail can be reintroduced?

    Thanks, I assumed i would need to wait for it to heal over and feathers to start regrowing
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    How long until scalped quail can be reintroduced?

    So my newer chicks just hit 6 weeks old and one of the males went ballistic and has scalped two others. I separated the injured birds to my brooder, the aggressive male and a couple other males who had noticeable foam went to holding for freezer camp and the one remaining male and 4 (i think...
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    Do jumbo quail smell worse than standard?

    Same food, same water, hutch is in the same part of the yard, everything the same
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    Do jumbo quail smell worse than standard?

    We've had our small flock of 7 standard quail for about a year now and we recently got 9 jumbo chicks. Pretty much after the first week i couldn't wait to get them outside, they stunk! A few weeks later of constant brooder cleanings and foul smells we finally got them outside with a heat lamp...
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    Turning vs not turning, an unintended experiment

    We went into lockdown tonight and candled as they went in. For the eggs on the turner of the 42 that went in there were 31 that candled dark, looked good, 3 or 4 that look like they started but stopped part way for some reason and the rest clear, unfertilized/never started. For the pile at the...
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    Turning vs not turning, an unintended experiment

    The past few months i have been hatching some eggs for a friend of mine who has a hobby farm and doesn't have enough incubator space to keep up. I have the normal chicken rails, not the quail rails, so no matter what i only have 42 spots on my turner and usually end up doing a mix of chicken and...
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    Do your Italian hens have orange chests?

    I had a hen with the same rusty coloured chest and even less speckles than the one in your picture. I was convinced she was a male when younger and kept her as one of my 2 males when i was deciding who to keep, but then i started getting an extra egg each day that i hadn't accounted for and the...
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    There's always one in every group

    I picked up some new chicks today and since the minute i got them home there is one that has been just chirping his head off. The rest will sleep, walk around, eat, but they all do it quietly, and the noisy chirper is the only tuxedo chick, so it's easy to tell it is just him and not multiple...
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    How much ventilation does a quail hutch need?

    I'm in the process of building a new quail hutch and I'm weighing the need for ventilation vs being sealed up to block out drafts for the winter. I'm in Canada, so I'm worried about the cold temps we get. The hutch itself is approx 3'x6'. One side is going to 1/2" hardware cloth on the bottom...
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    What's the oldest a male can be without foam?

    Just the one, although I do have a second bigger hutch that I am building for them right now. I had planned to have one male of the 6 birds, I've just been having no luck vent sexing them to confirm. The one brown tibetan produces foam any time I check, but so far I haven't been able to get any...
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    What's the oldest a male can be without foam?

    That's what i thought too. Sounds like something's going to have to be done about the others. The guy i got them from has offered to let me trade any extra males for females, so i'll have to make a decision which of the males i like best.
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    What's the oldest a male can be without foam?

    Here's a few more pictures from a few weeks ago of this one before it started molting. Had speckles on the chest, which is why i assumed female.
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    What's the oldest a male can be without foam?

    Would you say the third one that is molting is male as well, or is it female?
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    What's the oldest a male can be without foam?

    I didn't bother taking pictures of the other 3, they're all the dark tibetan/rosetta colour and can't tell anything from the colour.
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